Spring has been here some time now and I have lots of things in mind that I'd like to do, like those in my bucket list. What do you have plan this spring?
For months now I've been wanting to try Quinoa and today that day finally came. I had several recipes pinned and bookmarked so I went through it all and came up with this plate. It was a big hit with the hubby, so much so that he don't mind having it for dinner twice a week. Jackpot! my salad making days are over, Hallelujah.
Ingredients:
2 cup quinoa
4 cup water (extra for washing
1/2 bag raw shrimp (use more/less on your preference)
1 can black bean
1 can corn
1 1/2 Tbs olive oil
1/2 green pepper diced
1/2 red pepper diced
1Tbs chili powder
1 Tbs ground cumin
1/2 lemon juice
salt & pepper to taste
cilantro for garnishing
Cooking Directions:
~rinse quinoa w/ water
~bring 2cup of water to boil
~add quinoa, lower heat, let simmer while covered, stirring frequently
(when quinoa is all dried up it's ready. usually 15-18mins)
~peel shrimp while quinoa is cooking
~add oil to sauce pan. when hot add & cook shrimp, about 5mis
~add all vegetables to shrimp and stir
~add chili powder, cumin, salt & pepper, and lemon juice and stir
~adjust seasoning to your liking, let cook for 5-10 mins
~once both things are done combine quinoa with shrimp and vegetables
~serve, garnish, and enjoy!
All of this took 30 mins or less to make and I will definitely be making this again :)
You can add or substitute the vegetables, make it with other kind of meat or without, add fruits and brown sugar and eat as if it was oatmeal. The options are endless, I cannot wait to try it differently next week :)
Dear Pame,
Today was your first Mary Kay party and fyi it was scary! You were not ready and basically jumped in too fast. You need to pace yourself because if you don't you'll just be setting yourself up for failure. As you well know you are a BIG procrastinator and in order to succeed in life you need to set yourself straight! Just relax, get organize, and don't get ahead of yourself. Everything in life takes time and you need to be patient. So don't give up and just be yourself, you have potential and are a lot better than what you give yourself credit for ;) hang in there lovey.
On another note, Jen and Mia are fabulous girlfriends. Hang on to them, they're worth it.
Today was your first Mary Kay party and fyi it was scary! You were not ready and basically jumped in too fast. You need to pace yourself because if you don't you'll just be setting yourself up for failure. As you well know you are a BIG procrastinator and in order to succeed in life you need to set yourself straight! Just relax, get organize, and don't get ahead of yourself. Everything in life takes time and you need to be patient. So don't give up and just be yourself, you have potential and are a lot better than what you give yourself credit for ;) hang in there lovey.
On another note, Jen and Mia are fabulous girlfriends. Hang on to them, they're worth it.
But I wouldn't trade it for the world.
I don't care what anyone says or pretends to be, marriage is hard and it takes a lot to not give up. I feel as if you are tested more once you are married and is no fun. As a teenager I fantasized on how married life would be. Today I can honestly say that this is another full time job to have. Add kids in the mix and you have overtime jejeje. I can also say that the good always outweighs the bad and just as a reminder here are some quotes I've mentioned on my monthly wedding anniversary post.
2. "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
~Doug Larson
3. For better or worse,
For richer or poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish,
Until death do us part.
4. "Love like you'll never get Hurt"
5. "The kind of marriage you make depends on the kind of person you are. If you are a happy, well-adjusted person, the chances are your marriage will be a happy one. If you have made adjustments so far with more satisfaction than distress, you are likely to make your marriage and family adjustments satisfactory. If you are discontented and bitter about your lot in life, you will have to change before you can expect to live happily ever after". -Evelyn Duvall and Reuben Hill
6. "There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world..." Emmet Fox
7."Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years". -Simone Signoret
8. "The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life". -Brian Tracy
9. "In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer". -H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver
10. "Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century". ~Mark Twain
Now go give your husband a kiss for choosing you.
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